Another attempt at NWFP name change..

Malakand · July 20, 2005, 10:48pm

Re: Another attempt at NWFP name change..

There is nothing wrong with Indian culture. We Pashtun and Baluch are culturally Afghan and therefore we think different than the people who are culturally Indians. It is just a bad marriage.

PaKpatriot1:

So, its not about culture, its about ethnicity. Punjabis have a huge influence from India, ethinically and culturally, but that doesnt mean we are Indian. We also have genetic lines from Central Asia and Iran and Middle East. Even Indian culture you know is influenced by Iran and Central Asia. The Mughals were Central Asian you might recall. Akbar spoke Farsi!
Pasthuns to have alot of cultural influnces from India to. Afghanistan was once the center of Buddhism. This whole region, from India to Iran to Afghanistan have always been cuturally integrated, influencing each other heavily. You cant be so close to India without getting burned by it. And by the way, what wrong with having Indian culture?
You wrong if you think that Pashtuns are not influenced by India or vice versa. Pashtuns may not have been influneced as strongly, but that more due to the fact that they were always so independant and always at the edge of India instead of at the heart of it as Punjab was.